咏

See also: 詠

咏 U+548F, 咏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-548F ← 咎 [U+548E] CJK Unified Ideographs 咐 → [U+5490]

Translingual

Han character

咏 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 口戈弓水 (RINE), composition ⿰口永)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 185, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3494
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 609, character 1
• Unihan data for U+548F

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (永) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
永	*ɢʷraŋʔ
栐	*ɢʷraŋʔ
泳	*ɢʷraŋs
詠	*ɢʷraŋs
咏	*ɢʷraŋs

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 咏 – see 詠 (“to sing; to hum; to chant; to describe in poetic language”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 詠).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

咏

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. recitation
2. poem
3. song
4. composing

Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)←ゐやう (wiyau, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えい (ei)^{←えい (ei, historical)←ゑい (wei, ancient)}
• Kun: うたう (utau, 咏う)、よむ (yomu, 咏む)、ながめる (nagameru, 咏める)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
咏
えい Hyōgai
kan'on

For pronunciation and definitions of 咏 – see the following entry: 詠

(The following entry does not have a page created for it yet: 詠.)

Korean

Hanja

咏 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng)

1. sing song or poem, hum, chant

Vietnamese

Han character

咏: Hán Việt readings: vịnh
咏: Nôm readings: viếng, vắng, vẳng, vính, vạnh, vắn, vướng

1. alternative form of 詠 (“chữ Hán form of vịnh (“kind of poem that describes or comments on a particular subject”)”)
2. chữ Nôm form of vắn (“brief”)
3. chữ Nôm form of vằng (“absent; deserted; desolate”)
4. chữ Nôm form of viếng (“to pay a visit of condolence (to someone); to visit”)